Donald Trump’s opponents are trying to thwart his agenda using the courts – specifically, via nationwide injunctions that negate whole areas of federal policy, like downsizing government departments. The problem for them, explains Byron York in the Jewish World Review, is that the bureaucracy is an extension of the President’s executive authority under Article II of the Constitution – as the Supreme Court recently reaffirmed.
Inhuman for Criminals, the Luck of the Draw for You and Me
The EU may have banished the “‘inhuman,’ ‘degrading,’ and ‘irreversible’” death penalty for criminals, writes Frank Haviland in The European Conservative – but its member states’ soft-on-crime, easy-on-illegal-immigrants policies are making violent death an increasingly common fate for innocent Europeans. In a world gripped by barbarian forces, writes Haviland, it’s time for Great Britain to hold a national referendum on restoring an older form of justice.
